Mohawk Nation News 'Akwesasne 8 Dismissed: NY Power Has No Documents'

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Akwesasne 8 Dismissed: New York Power Authority Fails to Produce Documents

Akwesasne 8 DISMISSED. New York Power Authority fails to produce documents necessary to move forward.

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By Akwesasne 8, Censored News, Nov. 12, 2024

The charges of Conspiracy to a Felony, and Trespassing against the six of the Akwesasne 8, who appeared today, were dismissed today at Massena Town Court. The District Attorney stated that New York Power Authority (NYPA) did not produce appropriate documents to move forward.

Researchers for the Akwesasne 8 had gone to the St. Lawrence County Office for Deeds and Records to find a Deed/Land Title showing NYPA ownership. There is no record. When discovery documents were offered to the Akwesasne 8, each asked whether the documents contained a Title to the land on which the Akwesasne 8 were arrested. The District Attorney implied such documents were not part of the discovery packets.

In March 2022, Federal Judge Kahn of the Northern New York District of US Federal Court, ruled that New York State possession of Mohawk land is a violation of the Nonintercourse Act which prohibits land transfer of Indian land to non-Indians without Congressional approval.

On May 22, 2024 eight Kanienke’háka were arrested for Trespassing at Niionenhiasekówahne (Barnhart Island). Seven of the eight were charged with Conspiracy to a Felony. One person was charged with a Felony.

There is a long history of Onkwehonwe relations to Niionenhiasekowá:ne (Barnhart Island) - from the Dish With One Spoon Agreement, to Onkwehonwe families living on the island, and continue today through Kanienke’háka assertion of hunting, fishing, tree tapping, and medicine gathering liberties.

The Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim Settlement agreement seeks to sever Onkwehonwe relationship to Niionenhiasekowá:ne, formally ceding the island's title to New York State for $70 million and subjecting our hunting and gathering rights to foreign governments.

The Onkwehonwe that began construction at Niionenhiasekowá:ne acted in assertion of Kanienke’háka inherent and original rights as well as the pre-existing governance of Kaienerekowa.

“The Band Council, Tribe, state and federal governments are outside Kaienerekowa governance as younger governmental entities cannot and will not ostracize us from our lands and waters," said one of the Akwesasne 8.

“We are going back to Niionenhiasekowá:ne because it is Kanienke’háka land," a  group of the Akwesasne 8 stated.

Protectors of the Waters: From the Salish Sea to Standing Rock

Paul Chiyokten Wagner

Protectors of the Waters: From the Salish Sea to Standing Rock

Protectors of the Waters: Paul Chiyokten Wagner speaks on carrying forward the sacred way of life, from the Salish Sea to Standing Rock

"Our people hold the road map to paradise. Our people have that memory within us."

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 11, 2024

SEATTLE -- The Protectors of the Salish Sea baked camas on their ancestral island for the first time in one-hundred years, occupied the Washington State Capitol, and  journeyed to Standing Rock to build warm structures for the elders to brace against the blizzards, said Paul Chiyokten Wagner, WSANEĆ (Saanich) sharing the history from the Salish Sea to Standing Rock and beyond.

Coast Salish Water Warriors: Voices for the Water at the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News at Indybay, Nov. 8, 2024

Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction

SEATTLE -- The powerful Salish Sea Assembly magnified the voices of the Coast Salish Water Warriors, the struggle to shut down the Trans Mountain Pipeline, and the flow of dirty oil from the Alberta tar sands to the Salish Sea. It was censored by all major media.

"We are not just activists, we are revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years," said Kanahus Manuel, Secwepemc and Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline in British Columbia.

Coast Salish Water Warriors, The Salish Sea Assembly, Day 3

'State of Emergency for the Salish Sea' 

in Seattle, Day 3

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 8, 2024

Watch video by Govinda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct0JKlCZtVc

Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction

Water Warrior Patricia Gonzalez, Puyallup, Screen capture Censored News

"All of those waters lead back into one," said Patricia Gonzalez, Puyallup, Water Warriors Council, during the Coast Salish Water Warriors Panel.

"If you ever need healing, just go to the water."

Coast Salish Freedom Fighters: From Alberta Tar Sands to the Salish Sea: Live in Seattle Day 2

Coast Salish Freedom Fighters: From Alberta Tar Sands to the Salish Sea, Day 2

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 8, 2024

Watch Day 2 video by Govinda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giH3RP2S1Fw

Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction

SEATTLE -- The dead birds floating in the Alberta tar sands tailing ponds, the man camps linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased oil tankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil of the Trans Mountain pipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands, bound for oil tankers in the Salish Sea.

"We are not just activists, we are revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years," said Kanahus Manuel, Secwepemc and Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Live The Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle, Day 2

"This is really uplifting," says Rueben George, "Come have some food."

Reuben George is speaking on reliance on the spirit and the spiritual ecosystem.
Listen live now to The State of Emergency for the Salish Sea, in Seattle.
"We're people of the water."

In Major Win for Hualapai, Judge Extends Drilling Freeze for Lithium

Hualapai march outside the federal court in Phoenix. The tribe sued the Department of Interior's BLM for illegally approving a plan to drill test holes for lithium and endanger the sacred hot spring called Ha’Kamwe.' (Ash Ponders for Earthjustice)

In a Major Win for Hualapai Tribe, Judge Extends Drilling Freeze

Victory — Arizona Lithium must pause activity near Ha’Kamwe’ until lawsuit plays out

By Earthjustice, Censored News, Nov. 6, 2024

LEGAL DOCUMENT

PHOENIX, Arizona — A federal judge yesterday decided to extend a temporary pause on harmful drilling for the duration of the Hualapai Tribe’s legal case challenging federal approval of the Sandy Valley Lithium Exploration Project.

Live from The Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle Day 1

Live From the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle

Watch Day 1 video by Govinda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp2VHfE_pq8

Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 6, 2024

SEATTLE -- The Salish Sea Assembly welcomes everyone on Wednesday evening. "There's a fire going outside, and fresh salmon is being cooked," Govinda said as the gathering began.

Anthony Fernandez welcomed everyone as the The Salish Sea Assembly began at the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in Seattle.

Kanahus Manuel, Secwepemc, shared good words on the Tiny House Warriors, and the struggle now to protect the waters as oil tankers burden the waters from the Trans Mountain Pipeline.

Mohawk Nation News -- 'Whistle Blower Wonder Kimberley Murray Reveals Crime of the Century'

 

New at Mohawk Nation News:

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/11/05/whistle-blower-wonder-kimberley-murray-reveals-crime-of-the-century/

The Independent Special Interlocutor Released her Final Report and the Indigenous-led Reparations Framework for Missing and Disappeared Children and Unmarked Burials

New! The Red Nation: Diné for Palestine Brutalized, Tackled by Police, Jailed at Democrats Rally on Navajo Nation

Photo courtesy The Red Nation

Harris/Walz campaign staffers brutalized Diné at Navajo Nation capitol

By The Red Nation Podcast

Video https://www.therednation.org/the-red-nation-podcast-3/

NAVAJO NATION, Window Rock, Arizona -- Vice President candidate for the Democratic Party Tim Walz stopped in Window Rock, Arizona where snipers lined the monument and three Diné citizens were brutalized by his staffers during the Harris/Walz campaign stop; 10 days before the general election.

While standing in the crowd, a Diné woman was continuously harassed by authorities and attacked by a Walz staffer, while another Diné man was brutalized and arrested. Meanwhile, Buu Nygren, President of the Navajo Nation, was getting heckled about his missing Vice President and another woman chanting for Trump in the crowd. It was clear that campaign staffers weren’t clamping down on “disruptors”, rather, they were targeting Diné people—on their own homelands—policing anyone who supports Palestine.

Interior Sec. Haaland's Pueblo is in the Ballistic Missile Parts Business

 Laguna Industries manufactures parts for the ballistic missile, LGM-30G Minuteman III

Interior Sec. Haaland's Pueblo is in the Ballistic Missile Parts Business

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 4, 2024

LAGUNA PUEBLO, New Mexico -- Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's tribe's enterprise, Laguna Industries, manufactures parts for both the ballistic missile, and parts for combat jets, including the F-15. Biden recently approved the sale of fifty F-15 jets to Israel in a $20 billion deal.

The discovery comes after Biden was protested at Gila River Indian Community, and Interior Sec. Haaland was sued by three Arizona tribes for targeting and destroying the sacred.

The F-15 combat jet by McDonnell Douglas.

Laguna Industries, owned by Laguna Pueblo, is a defense contractor and produces electrical components. As a Native American owned company, it receives priority in defense contracting.

O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town

Photo courtesy O'odham Solidarity, published with permission, Censored News

Biden used the crimes committed against children in boarding schools to advance the political campaign at Gila River Indian Community. It backfired. -- Censored News

O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024

LAVEEN VILLAGE, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona -- In the Gila River Indian Community today, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to Native children who were victims of U.S. boarding schools. His glory campaign was short-lived.

As Biden spoke, an O'odham woman held up this sign: "There Are Still Babies in Mass Graves. Your Apology Means Nothing!! Land Back."

Indigenous Spiritual Walk to White Mesa Uranium Mill -- Unicorn Riot's Four Part Video Series

Yolanda Badback, organizer of the White Mesa Spiritual Walk: “I will always do this spiritual walk annually until I get my goal achieved of  cleaning up the mill or closing the mill down.”

White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk 2024 Photo Unicorn Riot

"This is about the human race. We are all one people," says Sylvia Clahchischilli, Dine'.  "We need the natural world to survive."

Indigenous Spiritual Walk in Utah Protests Last Conventional Uranium Mill

By Alex Binder, Unicorn Riot November 1, 2024

Watch the new four-part video series:
https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/indigenous-spiritual-walk-in-utah-protests-last-conventional-uranium-mill/

White Mesa, Utah — The White Mesa Mill was built in 1979 with plans to process uranium ore for 15 years. With the facility now well past its initial operational lifespan, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, other Indigenous tribes and allies continue their call for it to be shut down and cleaned up. On October 12, over 75 people participated in an annual spiritual walk in opposition to the mill, which is the last conventional uranium processing plant in operation in the United States.

Diné Supporters for Palestine Removed, Arrested, on Navajo Nation During Democrats Rally

Diné Supporters for Palestine Removed, Arrested, on Navajo Nation During Democrat's Rally

While standing in solidarity with Palestine, and in opposition to genocide, Diné women were manhandled and removed from the rally on their homeland, one Diné warrior remains jailed

By The Red Nation, Censored News, Oct. 27, 2024

WINDOW ROCK, Navajo Nation -- The Vice President candidate for the democratic party, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, campaigned at the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, Arizona, where snipers lined the sacred monument and three Diné citizens were escorted out. Two of them being women who were manhandled and one Diné man being tackled and arrested.

Snipers on the roof. Red Nation video, Censored News

The women were repeatedly harassed by secret service in the crowd, and one woman was violently attacked by a Harris/Walz staffer.